Comcast soon to be XFinity and update to outage tracker

Comcast is rebranding themselves as xfinity.  Why?  Probably because the Comcast name has become synonymous with horrible service.  Evident to the point where I was pissed off enough to blog about it.  BUT, the upside, Comcast made the effort to contact me and setup an appointment on the weekend, which was a nice change from their 'no weekend' truck roll policy.  The technician was prompt and replaced my eMTA (cable modem with phone line capability).  After replacing it, everything has been working great, even better than before.  The one thing I wish they would change about their policies, is the lack of cable card and eMTA self-installations / replacements.  This seems to hold true for most cable providers, though I don't have the foggiest idea as to why.  I can understand some people don't understand what a "mac" address is, but I'm assuming those are the type of people who don't mind getting a technician to come out to their residence.

Anyway, just to be fair to Comcast, I thought I'd post a follow-up to say all is good @ this time.  And good luck with the rebranding.

Comcast Outage Tracking 2009-06-24

Image via CrunchBase

I've decided to track how many outages and the length of time Comcast has issues with their internet service. I'm sick and tired of the almost nightly outage that occurs with my service and nothing seemingly being done about it. So here we go:
06/24/2009 10:21pm - Comcast contacted, automated message stated outage was known, pressed 1 to be contacted when problem resolved.
06/25/2009 9:02am - Received automated call stating issue resolved.

Total Time to Resolution: 10 Hours, 41 minutes.

Comcast is off to great start, uptime percentage: 99.87%
Based on ((24hrs x 365 days) - (Downtime)) / (24hrs x 365 days)

Amazon's Kindle for the iPhone

I'm not one for reading, but the thought of being able to subscribe to my favorite 'graphic novels' aka 'manga' kinda makes me giddy. They do have some technical books that I would definately be interested in purchasing, but I am somewhat hesitant to make the jump because I have no idea what it would be like trying to read it on my iPhone.

Hotcakes, Apples, and ...Rice Cooker!?

I love my rice cooker. It's my source of food on the days I'm too lazy to make anything else and supplements when I do cook. My wife has been using it to make other things lately. She recently made this Apple Hot Cake in it. Only took like 30 minutes to make and I'll tell you what...It was yummy. Hot cake mix is basically what we Americans refer to as pancake mix.

Happy New Year!!!

Ein rang in the new year passed out.